Back Spin

BBscout

Wished you would have posted this yesterday because I would have definitely given a positive mention of this hitter's swing to your Farm Director Andy Dunn who I had the pleasure of spending some quality and very positive time with today at Colton's GCL start. He told me he just left Vermont and I told him how much I believed in you and Brett, and I mean it, and how long it took me as professional to make adjustments with wood after aluminum as well as other examples. I also gave him some "verbal" reports on George Lombard who I scouted when I worked with Orioles in GA when he patrolled OF in Atlanta Braves organization who I was looking for today at game because he knows me and "was" on NATS GCL roster last week. Anyway, Andy informed me that he had just been promoted top AAA NATS affiliate Darn! Was waiting in the wings!!

Englund looks really good in the clip BB, good draft and sign. You did sign him I hope??!! peace, Shep

BBscout

After going over my scouting notes I realized that Englund was playing CF yesterday for GCL NATS and knocked the cover off the ball in at least one of his ABs yesterday! WOW! Didn't realize that was your sign out there, he looked really good!
He will play in Bigs, fore sure! Sorry I didn't pick up on this earlier but there are just so many thousand names running around up here in this old and feeble brain Thanks for not embarrasing me....but in all humility, I must admit, I missed that one.... peace

NO DOUBT ABOUT IT YAZ AND BONDS ARE DROP DOWN AND DRIVING WITH AN UPPERCUT PROBABLY A MIDDLE IN PITCH

THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT STAYING ABOVE THE BALL AND SWINGING DOWN LEVEL THRU AND UP IS WRONG JUST DIFFERENT

KIND OF LIKE TYPING IN CAPS

I JUST LOOKED HERE

http://imageevent.com/siggy/hitting/pro

I THINK I AM WRONG IT SURE LOOKS LIKE ALL THESE HITTERS ARE SWINGING UP AT CONTACT

If you want to see one of the best examples of keeping the barrel inside the baseball, look at number 9 with Ortiz pulling hands in slightly and keeping barrel inside of ball on inside half pitch.

One thing I noticed in every one of these Ziggy examples, the bat has to come down before it goes back up in the uppercut fashion creating a natural reverse backspin on ball off bat
peace, Shep

This one had some back spin on it, as it seemed to just carry and carry.

Sandman

That was a serious swing from that prospect! Sorry I missed this earlier. That is some serious backspin How far did it go anyway? WOW!!! peace

Went back and read...That is quite a feat for the little guy! That is a long way for a player that age to hit a baseball for sure! How tall is he anyway? His mechanics looked VERY GOOD! peace

lookin good sandman!

Thanks guys.

Shep, he is almost 4'10" and weighs ~95 lbs. He turns 12 10 days after this game.

Shep #8 Ortiz, had to do that because he was beat by the pitch. He was late and it was his only chance. Thats not his normal swing, for sure! Later

Nice looking kid you've got there Sandman.

Vance34

Are number 8 & 9 clips of Ortiz the same swing??
I have looked at them and don't think so. Number nine(9) clip of Ortiz is the one I made reference to, not 8. Not a problem though and if these two clips are the same, I apologize in advance, Vance Peace, Shep

Great posts fellas, way to keep it civil. A good hitter will start taking his hands down towards the baseball. So, your first movement after the load, is to "take it down". You don't want to chicken wing that front elbow. But then your barrel will eventually drop before contact. Then it is job of the back leg and top hand to drive that barrel back up through the baseball. In saying that, backspin is excellent. Swinging down is wrong. Not a professional swing, however, it is good to think in the box, "take it down" with the nob of the bat, so you will stay compact. IF you are thinking "swing up", a lot of bad stuff can happen. Great clips by the way, those are great examples, those guys all take the nob down and then the barrel takes off because of the hip action.

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MAX

We're still waiting for that email response from AROD you said you would cut and paste here at HSBBW in this thread. He's prolly too busy in the batting cages trying to get rid of that uppercut and swamped in emails trying to respond to all those diehard boo-bird fans in the bronx Later!

bubnbran

Always good to see you back here brother. You are very good for baseball. Hope and pray prospects will be led your way because I know you are very knowledgeable and can help a prospect to reach his full-potential. Peace, Shep

I'M STILL WAITING TOO

Max

Please stop yelling at us! Just kidding, yell all you want to.

Hope AROD's paid staff of email response team will get caught up enough to get to your email and get a response out soon. Seriously, peace, Shep.

Shep, 8 and 9 are the same swing and on the same pitch and on the same day but from two different angles. Your still the man!

Woops! No evidently, you're the man Apologize for the brain cramp or is it these ole tired eyes. Well, maybe a little bit of both

Have a good day Vance34 and a definite shout out of Peace to you Brother! Shep

Shep...thanks for the encouragement...prospect wise the GCL Braves are struggling. It is hard for some of these kids to make the adjustment to pro ball. But, we are working hard. We do have good pitching however, imagine that... the Braves having good pitching in thier system! Any way I can help, I am willing to on this website. I think it can very beneficial to young players. Make sure we keep the arguing to a minimum. Save that for private posts. Young players need this as a resource, as do parents. Sometimes I am hesitant to post anything due to the ridicule from all the "experts" that sometimes frequent this site.

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Oooooopsie - he's baaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!!!

And - believe it or not - with another question.

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